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For the man who signed the Good Friday agreement and later came out as a
card-carrying Roman Catholic, Tony Blair showed a lack of cultural
sensitivity about the sectarian divide between Glasgow’s football clubs,
recalls Jim Murphy in his book, The 10 Football Matches That Changed the
World.

Shaking hands with guests as they arrived at an event in the city, Blair asked
each new arrival: “Are you Rangers or Celtic?” often before looking to see
who he was addressing. “I’m the cardinal,” came the response from the
imposing Thomas Winning, then Scotland’s most senior Catholic. “So probably
Celtic.”